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The distance light travels in a
year.
What is a light year?
The color of the coolest stars
What is red?
Stars are born when this starts
What is nuclear fusion?
The lifetime of a star
depends on its ________
What is the star’s mass?
A supernova is the explosion of a
dying _________ mass star.
What is a high mass star?
The Milky Way galaxy is an
example of a(n)
___________________ galaxy.
What is a spiral galaxy?
The absolute brightness of a star
depends on its ______.
What is size and
temperature?
The Hertzsprung-Russell
diagram shows that mainsequence stars _______
in brightness as they _____ in
temperature.
What is increase and
increase?
The force that tends to pull
together the matter in stars is
________________________.
What is gravity?
Benthos are organisms that live
where?
What is on the ocean floor?
List three examples of
nekton.
Name anything that swims
freely.
The part of the ocean
that extends from the
low-tide line to the edge
of the continental shelf is
the ______ zone.
What is the neritic zone?
Kelp forests grow in the
_________ zone
What is the neritic zone?
Organisms in tide pools must
survive changes in _______
caused by rainfall and
evaporation.
What is salinity?
In what zone are hydrothermal
vents located?
What is the deep zone?
In the open ocean,
algae live only
in______ zone
What is the surface zone?
Organisms in the deep
ocean that produce their
own light are called
__________.
.
What is bioluminescent?
A nearly flat region of the
ocean floor, covered with
thick layers of sediment, is
called a(n)
_____________.
What is an abyssal plain?
The area that stretches from the
highest high-tide line on land out
to the point on the continental
shelf exposed by the lowest low
tide is called the ___________.
What is the intertidal zone?
A ring-shaped reef
surrounding a shallow
lagoon is known as a(n)
________.
What is an atoll?
An area where ocean water
rises through cracks in the
ocean floor, having been
heated by the magma beneath
the ocean floor, is called a(n)
______________.
What are hydrothermal vents?
Coral reefs are found in warm waters
in the ___________ zone
What is the neritic zone?
Beyond the edge of
the continental shelf
lies the _______zone,
which includes the
deepest and darkest
areas of the ocean.
What is the open-ocean
zone?
Beyond the edge of the
continental shelf lies the
____________________ zone,
which includes the deepest and
darkest areas of the ocean.
.
What is the open-ocean zone?
Which ocean floor
feature is made up
of a range of
mountains that wind
through the ocean?
.
What is the mid-ocean
ridge?